The evolution of TPM: Genpact rethinks its approach

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1 Brochure Generating TRADE PROMOTION Impact The evolution of TPM: Genpact rethinks its approach In the past five years, the typical consumer products manufacturer has started three trade promotion projects and churned through three TPM applications1. Tangible help is needed to target trade spending where it will be most effective for the manufacturer and the retailer, and assist a sales force who has less time and more competing demands than ever before. TPM projects also have one of the strongest ROI profiles, with average returns within six months. Therefore, the primary consideration is how a TPM change initiative is conducted, not if it should be started. Supply Chain Insights LLC 2012 Survey 1 PROCESS ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGY

2 A constantly changing landscape Consumer buying habits have changed, spending in real terms on grocery items has decreased, and the retail landscape continues to change, transform, and consolidate. The shopper today is more value focused and better informed than ever before. Store brands now form an increasing share of a typical shopper s basket, and consumers buy products closer to usage, buy less on each trip, and buy fewer items on impulse, while broadening where they purchase their groceries. Consumers do detailed research on prices, assortment, and promotions before ever entering a store and far more efficiently than leafing through the weekly retail inserts. E-coupons have become part of many consumers grocery trips, with redemption rates many times higher than conventional print coupons. In many markets, the beneficiaries of grocery shopper behavior changes have been the dollar, club, drug, ethnic, and C stores, resulting in a blurring of channels. Superstores have also expanded their share, which is why the real loser is the traditional grocery supermarket. In response, the retailer s expectations of a manufacturer are higher than they have ever been. Flawless order fulfillment, promotional and pricing insights, investment in shopper marketing activities, purchase of retailer consumption data, and, of course, the manufacturer s promotional payments are essential to a retailer s success and, increasingly, to their relevance and survival. The manufacturer is facing a double-whammy: upward pressure on cost to serve and downward pressure on revenue. In response, they must improve the predictability of retailer promotional charges and become more effective in how, where, and when trade expenditure is committed with a focus on shifting the retailer to a pay-forperformance regimen. Transparent, frequent, and granular coordination of the sales forecast with supply chain planning processes is essential. There is no panacea, but a sophisticated, efficient, and integrated trade promotion management process is a vital component, one that puts power and insight in the hands of the most important link between that process and the retailer the sales account manager. Therefore, the many challenges in successfully transforming most manufacturers trade promotion management processes are concerning. Why might that be the case? TPM initiatives: are they doomed to fail? TPM has perhaps the greatest reach of any single process in a consumer product company. TPM spans strategic planning, brand marketing, finance, customer service, and supply chain. It relies on innovation inputs from R&D and often extends to third parties through sales and marketing agencies. Satisfying the needs of every party in a single software application is almost impossible, yet some companies try. Too often, the fundamental account planning needs of the sales teams get lost in the mix. Many questions should be answered (but too often are not) before a company considers the software to support any TPM initiative. Although this does not guarantee success, it will lay a solid foundation and provide benchmarks to measure progress during the transformation.. What about the software? TPM packages have matured considerably, improving science, functionality, and technology to support the increasingly expanding definition of TPM. Capabilities have been extended across a growing number of consumer product categories and distribution models. Powerful exception management, workflow, and approval capabilities have been added, and the packages have embraced the shift to mobility and cloud platforms. Today s TPM software has become by far the most integrated of any class of application. The software depends on clean, up-to-date, consistent master GENPACT Brochure

3 data and is fueled by the exponential growth of data available for planning and analysis. However, the typical budget and timeline for a TPM software project have changed little over the past decade. It is little wonder then that the level of satisfaction and ultimately the success of TPM initiatives particularly those with a significant software component have met with limited success. Cramming everything into a single software package for all possible constituents and in a single project is not working, and is not likely to work. Outcomes will continue to fail to meet expectations unless the approach to TPM software projects changes fundamentally. It s time to answer more questions. Question What functionality is critical to the core end users, and must be available in the application? Where will a simpler approach suffice? What functionality can I wait for and, if it s not available, can I the software vendor to include the capability later? What improvements or automation do I still need but can be done outside of the TPM software? What functionality, and which aspects of my business can I leave out of scope completely? What are my options? Example elaboration Are the primary end users extensively engaged in software evaluation? Is a simple approach to promotion approval sufficient? Is mobility capability needed immediately or can I wait? Is it critical to perform post promotion analysis within the TPM software or can it be done elsewhere and linked in? Are there areas that are marginal or contribute less to TPM spend or sales revenue, or have specific processes & requirements and can be omitted with diluting ROI? A carefully planned, phased, and blended TPM transformation is best positioned to succeed and will deliver the strongest results, combining: Rigorous up-front analysis and planning at the outset of the initiative Inclusion of field sales at each step, including adjusting MBOs to recognize the individuals accepting additional responsibilities Passionate commitment to process improvement, harmonization, and simplification with a clearly defined owner for each process area Assessment of what is critical in a TPM package and what can be accomplished in other ways Evaluation of business process outsourcing (BPO) and managed services options, fully integrated into the transformation and interwoven with the software deployment reducing complexity in the package, providing opportunities to phase changes more easily, driving process and change initiatives, and relieving the stress points that burden TPM packaged software projects These considerations have the same transformation potential for companies that have long since completed a TPM project as for those just starting one. It is equally important to engage a partner that understands change and how it should be orchestrated into an overarching transformation framework across areas as diverse as master data management; account planning; and the science of promotion modeling, shopper marketing, and effective deduction management processes. The intelligent TPM process Genpact has pushed beyond its Lean Six Sigma heritage to create our Smart Enterprise Processes (SEP SM ) that dramatically improves operational effectiveness, helping our customers attain end-to-end process effectiveness and improved outcomes. SEP SM is an uncompromisingly logical and unique methodology that uses granular process and data analysis, sophisticated diagnostics, and cross-functional benchmarks to maximize process effectiveness, integrating process, analytics, and technology. Genpact goes beyond the diagnostics to actual road maps and execution. Leveraging the SEP SM framework, we engage with our customers for multiple service offerings focused on specific business outcomes across many industries. The SEP SM for TPM provide comprehensive trade promotion management and optimization services, GENPACT Brochure

4 including advisory and research; promotion and trade fund management; account planning, integrated shopper marketing programs, sales forecasting, and modeling; and settlements, claims, and deduction resolution and post-event evaluation. Embedded within the TPM SEP SM are Genpact s Smart Decision Solutions, which enable consumer goods companies to intelligently interpret the huge data volumes to which they have access, making better decisions about their trade and shopper marketing programs and investments. Employing the power and experience of the world s largest analytics practice, Genpact helps our customers better utilize the explosion of consumer data sources to understand buying behavior, develop trade marketing strategies, and ultimately improve the effectiveness of trade promotions, providing account teams with the essential insights the retailer is demanding. Genpact has forged close relationships with some of the most important technology vendors in the consumer goods space. Our relationships with Oracle and SAP and our extensive experience of packaged TPM software implementation and customer-specific TPM solutions combined with the rigor of the SEP SM for TPM uniquely positions Genpact as the broadest and deepest partner for a TPM transformation whether a full end-to-end transformation or specific initiatives targeted at current gaps or weaknesses in a process or insight. Genpact works with leading consumer products manufacturers across the globe to help transform their TPM processes, including: Providing a European manufacturer and marketer of biscuits, cakes, and snacks with the capability to model and compare multiple what if promotional scenarios and deliver simplified and standardized promotional processes resulting in decision making in 15% less time, critical in a short-cycle business Using leading proprietary analytical models for a leading U.S. snack manufacturer and distributor to provide critical insights to the account teams on account switching, brand switching, and self-cannibalization during promotional periods, resulting in a significant shift in promotional calendars and trade spend utilization A shopper marketing solution for a major U.S. packaged foods company that applied a scientific approach to more than 600 shopper marketing events, resulting in more than 20% improvement in event and tactic effectiveness Expanding the capabilities of a major global consumer product manufacturer s U.S. TPM solution to integrate promotion setup and funds management with deductions management and a focus on promotion modeling that resulted in a 50% increase in forecast accuracy over their legacy process A solution for a global brewery s South American operations to address short-term retail promotion activation, price point planning, post-activity tracking and payment approval, and longer term in-store placement, volume incentives, cooler placement, and plan-o-gram compliance People Process Technology Who in the organization am i doing this for? Do I have the right people in the right roles? Is my organization aligned correctly? How do I obtain alignment & acceptance before I start? What are my objectives and are MBOs aligned with them? How do my people, and how do I define success? Does the company culture allow for individual decision making and accountability? Do I have a true planning culture today? How do I standardize my process and planning? How long does account planning take and how long should it take? Do I understand my customer segmentation - and does it reflect the market and company priorities? Have I defined my core business and core customers? What can t I do today that I must do to compete? Where is my critical data and is it adequate? Do I have the right planning structures today? What are the company s critical measures and do I have them benchmarked? What are my customer s most important measures and do I have them benchmarked? Where will my people do most of their work? GENPACT Brochure

5 A journey, not a project Genpact understands that moving an entire sales organization through a trade promotion transformation requires commitment, patience, and leadership. It requires the sales organization to be an integral part of, not just a recipient of the change. It requires a long-term view, constant communication and visualization and a willingness and ability to be flexible and adjust as customer and market conditions change. It requires a deep understanding of and the ability to improve business processes and, ultimately, means treating a TPM transformation as a journey, not a project. Companies that embrace this approach will benefit from the compelling ROI that TPM software offers, but the purpose will be clearer, the boundaries better defined, and the process optimized, streamlined, and focused on the needs of the core users. The chances for success will be radically improved as the users themselves will have helped define, shape, and ultimately own the journey.

6 About Genpact Genpact Limited (NYSE: G) is a global leader in transforming and running business processes and operations. We help clients become more competitive by making their enterprises more intelligent: more adaptive, innovative, globally effective and connected. Genpact stands for Generating Impact for hundreds of clients including over 100 of the Fortune Global 500. We offer an unbiased combination of smarter processes, analytics and technology through our 62,000+ employees in 24 countries, with key management based in New York City. Behind Genpact s passion for process and operational excellence is the Lean and Six Sigma heritage of a former General Electric division that has served GE businesses for 15+ years. For more information, contact, and visit Follow Genpact on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Copyright Genpact. All Rights Reserved.

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